John can\u2019t make a poll, Alison knows the religious forms, and Liz has one more games thing (sorry).\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.\nLetters of comment\nAng Rosin\nChris Garcia\nClaire Brialey\nDC\nFarah Mendlesohn\nIan Snell\nMark Plummer\nPat McMurray\nPeter Sullivan\n\nSwancon had to cancel the day before the con due to three-day lockdown (ouch)\nDisCon III\nThey\u2019re changing dates to December!\nThis has raised questions about the deadline for site selection\nThese questions were not as academic as they initially seemed\n\nBaen\u2019s bar is back\nToni Weisskopf (former DisCon III Guest of Honour) thinks all the disputed posts are okay (including the ones that are advocating armed insurrection)\nMike Glyer makes a stand\n\n\nHugo Awards\nBest Video Game\nWhat is a Let\u2019s Play?\nMinesweeper: The Movie\nPok\xe9mon Detective Pikachu\n\n\nFIYAHCON\nA FIYAHCON retrospective\nFIYAHCON published details about their platforms and costs\nFIYAHCON 2021 registration is open, including options to donate memberships\nYou can donate to the General Fund for running costs, but they have hit their membership donation target\nReclamation 2022 have also implemented donations to allow less able fans to attend, with a recommended amount of \xa310 (if you can afford it)\nDisCon III and Chicon 8 have similar funds; so did Dublin 2019\n\nFIYAHCON also announced Ignyte Award nominees\n\nMusic credits\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.